“Now if you’ll just look right here…”. A sudden flash. You blink, wig snatched, and Tommy Lee Jones fills the blank with a new story. Instead of an intergallactic crime, you’ve witnessed a gas leak or a flash of light refracted from Venus. The audience laughs, its absurd, just sci-fi gadgets. Except, there might be more truth to it than you would have expected.
When a single billionaire controls both the data source, the AI, and the distribution platform itself, while holding strong political views, it creates an environment where their products act as instruments of influence.
Have you ever heard of Mr. Safer? In the 1990s, he wanted to understand how the French could eat more high-fat foods yet have lower rates of heart disease than Americans. He argued that having one glass of wine with a meal a day could help a person have better health, as that was what he claimed the French were doing.
